Alice Guy-Blache [1873-1968] is not as well-known as Georges Melies but just as prolific and influential.
Here is a short film called "La Glu" [1907] involving the mischievous adventures of a boy with a bucket of glue that resembles today's cyanoacrylate equivalent--Super Glue.
The collected works by Alice Guy-Blache when she was associated with Gaumont Films is available from Kino http://www.kino.com/video/item.php?film_id=988 .
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Guy-Blach%C3%A9